Chances maybe?

Transfer Students
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<p>Right now I'm doing my first semester at Boston College. I've always thought that I might've made a bad choice, but now I'm absolutely sure that I want to transfer since I want to do biomedical engineering and BC doesn't offer any sort of engineering at all.</p>

<p>Right now I'm taking four classes and two labs, for a total of 15 credits. Here's what I think I'll end up getting:</p>

<p>Organic Chem A
Molec Cell Bio A-
Intro to Econ A-
Intro to Art Hist B+
Bio lab/chem lab perhaps B+ together</p>

<p>That would make for a 3.6. Will I be given a bit of slack since I'm taking 200/300 level science classes?</p>

<p>As for high school:
4.17/5 W GPA
1510 SAT (800m/710v, 750m/760v)
10 APs, nine 5s and one 4
I don't know which of those matter, to be honest.</p>

<p>Schools I'm considering:
UMich
UCB (yeah right), UCLA
USC
University of Illinois
UNC
McGill (I got accepted for this year, don't know if that makes a difference)</p>

<p>Your two cents? Any advice would be appreciated, since I've been tearing my hair out wondering where I stand. This is almost as bad as last year.</p>

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<p>You look like a great applicant for all those schools, to me. Maybe I'm misinformed, but if you have some life in extracurriculars, I think you're fine.</p>

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<p>I don't. At all.</p>

<p>Yeah, I'll have to work on that that. Is that a big issue?</p>

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<p>I agree -- you have a great shot at all of those schools. Just make sure to keep that GPA up or despite your excellent SAT and AP Stuff, you wont get into CAL--GPA is very important there.</p>

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<p>It'll be tough to transfer before junior status. If you don't get in as a sophomore, you'll get in as junior - assuming your stats improve.</p>

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<p>Anyone know anyone who transferred to Stanford as a sophomore? Any tips?</p>

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<p>Yes, many colleges like to see well-rounded people. So take time to do activities you enjoy.</p>

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<p>Alright, thanks for the advice. I'm glad to know that it's at least possible. At this point, I'm pretty sure that I want to go to either Berkeley or UMich. I just found this info for UMich, though:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.engin.umich.edu/students/prospective/undergraduate/admissions/transfer/external/#preqs%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.engin.umich.edu/students/prospective/undergraduate/admissions/transfer/external/#preqs&lt;/a>
Apparently I need 4 credits for English Composition to even apply to UMich Engineering. I only took the English Lit AP, and no English classes this semester. As far as I can tell, this means that I won't be able to apply for Fall 2006. Am I reading this right? That would... really suck. </p>

<p>I guess I could apply to LSA instead of engineering and just to to grad school for BME, but would it put me at a disadvantage (for UMich admissions) since I'd be doing something that I could be doing here? Then again, LSA should be a bit easier to get into by itself, right? Perhaps I can transfer from LSA to engineering for the next year or semester, but of course I can't mention that in my app. Hmm... I also wonder if doing a science rather than an engineering major would hurt my grad school chances. Any clue on how I should plan this out? Sorry for the incoherent post; my mind is one huge mess from looking at all the UMich websites and this is mainly just to sort my thoughts out for the moment.</p>

<p>Oh, I also checked the UCB and UCLA websites and neither has an undergrad BME program. Guess I'd have to go the science major route with those, although maybe I could do mech engineering, but then I'd probably run into the same problems that I found out with UMich.</p>

<p>Man, this is harder than I thought. Glad I'm doing this all now and not December.</p>